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RDEK prepares for Jumbo workload Mayor of new resort municipality will not have board vote ANNALEE GR ANT Townsman Staff
The Regional District of East Kootenay has received clarification from the provincial government on the board’s responsibility now that the Jumbo Glacier Resort is set to become a municipality. Rob Gay, board chair, said he spoke with a representative from the province on Wednesday who confirmed that newly appointed Mayor Greg Deck will in fact have a seat on the RDEK despite a 2009 request from the RDEK that an appointed member not receive a seat. But Deck will not receive a vote on the board until 2017 or until the municipality’s infrastructure and im-
provements are assessed at $30,000,000. The RDEK had previously sent a letter dated September 9, 2009, to the ministry asking that the Jumbo Glacier Resort be declared a mountain resort municipality, but that an appointed member not be granted a seat at the RDEK table. The letter asked that a seat be granted once there was a steady population capable of carrying out a democratic election of mayor and council. Gay said the province has responded with the new mountain resort municipality’s Letters Patent by giving Deck a seat but not a vote immediately.
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Const. Eldene Stanley receives her Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal at the St. Eugene Mission Golf Resort and Casino on November 19 from Chief Superintendent Mike Sekela, district commander of the Southeast District.
Giant Tiger closing Power in the red serge dream SALLY MACDONALD Townsman Staff
Cranbrook’s Giant Tiger is closing just before Christmas. The store, located in the Baker Street Mall, was the chain’s only location in B.C. “The closure was based on an extensive review of the store’s sales performance,” said Connie Tamoto, manager of corporate communications for the
NorthWest Company, which owns the chain. Approximately 25 staff were employed at Giant Tiger in Cranbrook, which will close its doors on December 22. It is the second department store to close in Cranbrook this year. Zellers closed in October to make way for Target, which will open in the spring in the Tamarack Centre.
Ktunaxa Nation’s Eldene Stanley wanted to be a cop as long as she can remember
ANNALEE GR ANT Townsman Staff
Const. Eldene Stanley wanted to be a police officer before women were even allowed in the RCMP. When she received her Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal on Monday, Nov. 19, it was literally the crowning achievement on a career that brought her back to her hometown of Cranbrook and the
Ktunaxa Nation that raised her. Stanley found her niche in aboriginal policing where she does not only general policing duties, but special programs and support for youth in the Aqam, Yaqan Nukiy, Akisqnuk and Grasmere bands. It’s the perfect fit for the 22-year veteran of the RCMP. She moved to Cranbrook in 1975 and graduated from Mount Baker Secondary
School in 1987. She’s a member of the Ktunaxa Nation and the pride she has in her heritage is readily apparent. Stanley knew what she wanted to do long before it was even a career option. “I knew from an early age that I was going to be a police officer,” she said. “In fact, I decided during a time when women weren’t allowed into the RCMP.”
The RCMP began allowing female members in 1974. Stanley started off her career as an auxiliary police officer from 1987 to 1990 before heading to depot training in Saskatchewan. Her memories of that time are of the intense weather she had never experienced growing up in Cranbrook.
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